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Gypsy Droves (b​-​side​/​rough mix of an unfinished song abandoned while tracking)

from Phantasmagoric Menagerie (LP) by Animal Holograms

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This song began to really develop and grow on me once I wrote all the additional guitar parts, particularly the harmonic instrumental and solo. And I'm very weary of guitar solos, but this one accompanied by the continued melody using the guitar harmonics, both normal and pitched, felt right. However I was never able to get the mix the way I wanted it and there were a couple guitar parts that needed to be recorded, but by this time, already having spent three plus weeks on guitars alone and mixing the record for nearly six weeks, I decided to just cut the track along with Speed Queen and another track called "Heaven". However, with the exception of "Heaven" (which will remain in the vault for as long as I'm alive, sadly) and two other tracks originally intended to be on the record, but got 86'd before recording even began), listeners can enjoy some of the songs written which were meant to appear alongside the others, but for various reasons got left behind.

lyrics

Nobody's sleepin',
The countryside is littered with open eyes
The Devil on the moon dancin' like a fool
Lures all the flies to our rotted fruit

When the Gypsy Droves arrive
They'll steal our hearts to turn into motorbikes
And ride into the centre of your idyllic town
To make the Earth there now a nomad Heaven

Every afternoon a thousand children die
The Devil dancing on the moon still attracts the flies
If all I had to do was sin to prove that life's not boring
That pouring rain is glory
And that the last page in the book
Isn't the end of the story

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from Phantasmagoric Menagerie (LP), released August 15, 2015

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Animal Holograms Chicago, Illinois

Psych-rock sextet sometimes labeled a grungegaze "outfit?" making dream pop music for downtrodden scumbag droves sporting mothball, over-sized flannel & fashionably expressive shredded, sewer-stained, denim heirlooms called "My fucking jeans, you fascist!". We're admittedly naive to the grunge/90's alt rock revival subculture apparently all the rage suddenly...

Jason, Alex, Zach, Sarah & Danny
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